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splash⋅board

[splash-bawrd, -bohrd]
–noun
1. a board, guard, or screen to protect from splashing, as a dashboard of a vehicle or a guard placed over a wheel to intercept water, dirt, etc.
2. Nautical. washboard (def. 3).

Origin:
1820–30; splash + board

wash⋅board

[wosh-bawrd, -bohrd, wawsh-]
–noun
1. a rectangular board or frame, typically with a corrugated metallic surface, on which clothes are rubbed in the process of washing.
2. a baseboard around the walls of a room.
3. Also called splashboard. Nautical.
a. a thin, broad plank fastened to and projecting above the gunwale or side of a boat to keep out the spray and sea.
b. a similar board on the sill of a port.
–adjective
4. resembling a washboard in being rough and bumpy: a washboard roadbed.

Origin:
1735–45; wash + board


washboardy, adjective
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splash·board   (splāsh'bôrd', -bōrd')   
n.  
  1. A structure that protects the upper part of a vehicle from splashes of mud.

  2. Nautical A screen on a boat to keep water from splashing onto the deck.

  3. A board for closing a spillway or sluice.

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